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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Murano & Italy Glass => Topic started by: Gowdod on April 08, 2014, 09:28:40 PM
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Dear Murano glass sleuths, is this as I describe it?. full of mica/adventurine, fully ground pontil, what looks like Merlotto in the bottom part of the vase. Circa 8\9 inches tall. What say you all? Thanks. Andrew
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it's Merletto! Thanks
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Merletto means lace. Check it out on google images and you will see that this is a different technique. Meanwhile no idea what your glass is - a picture of the whole thing would help.
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Ivo, they are there, have a look at these with the sun behind. I'll also post a similar style link.
Kind regards
Andrew
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Herewithe, interestingly with a similar narrow side profile.
Www.anrtquehelper.com/item/292994
Yours
Andrew
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Here is the correct link
http://www.antiquehelper.com/item/292994
Pictures are more useful against a plain white or dark background, whichever shows the detail best
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Dear L, thanks. How about these?
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Does look similar to the antiquehelper one, doesn't it. I'd say, stick with it.
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Looking through Leslie Pina's book on Archimede Seguso I would agree with Ivo. The book shows a couple of different uses or styles of merletto in both vases and bowls. There are some with merletto quite similar to yours (one is top page 64 if any one has the book), they are described as merletto frastagliata.
John
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I think this is merletto. Correct me if I am wrong guys but wasn't merletto a style that A.S. would not divulge how he did it? I have never seen anything remotely like this that is not A.S. merletto - Not one of the most attractive items I have seen by him but very unusual. Still I would kill to have it in my collection.
Where did you pick it up? They are getting very hard to find unless you have several thousand to spend..
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Hi Gowdad: Just looking through some of my old posts and saw yours. The A.S. Merletto here is called Frastagliato (ragged). Rosa Barovier, Archimede Seguso, plate 43.
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Dear Gowdod,
I'd be suspicious because of the foot. Techniques such as merletto are quickly copied in Murano. There is no secret as to how it is done. There are at least a dozen young glassblowers here in Seattle who can do a competent merletto. The foot however doesn't seem stylistically consistent with the Seguso pieces I'm aware of. I am not an expert on Seguso so I can't say for sure.
-waltl2
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Hi Walt: Can you point me to some examples of Merletto that are NOT A.S. I would like to see other Merletto work to compare.
I always understood that this technique was not passed on.
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Hi Walt: Can you point me to some examples of Merletto that are NOT A.S. I would like to see other Merletto work to compare.
I always understood that this technique was not passed on.
I will contact my friends who do it
and see if I can get you some pictures. Most things that people say are lost secrets are really not.
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Here's a couple
One from a guy I don't know
http://www.artfulhome.com/product/Art-Glass-Vessel/Blue-Merletto-Straight-No-Chaser/92676
I e-mailed my buddies who do it and I'll see if I can get pictures.
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Thanks Walt, very interesting. His Merletto is not structured as A.S. does it, does this suggest it was David Russell's choice or is it more difficult to organise it?
As I am looking for a A.S. merletto vase or bowl I am VERY interested in other merletto work that is Not A.s.
Don't tell me there are also makers using the Nastro Richiamato style?
regards
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I am not familiar with that name.
If the kids here in Seattle do it. There has to be 50 people in Murano who do it.
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Dear Ardy,
Lino Tagliapietra who apprenticed to Seguso has been traveling the world teaching all those techniques
. He's 80 and still working.He has especially been teaching a lot in America. You can see him work at:
http://museumofglass.org/glassmaking/live-from-the-hot-shop from 9-3pm PST
from the 18th to the 22nd of February. He does all those cane techniques . You can see them in videos or watch them live on our stream from the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. The secrets are out.
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Walt, Tagliapietra is one of the truly great glass artists in the world today.
I love his work, he has done several trips to Australia and his stuff comes up for sale here from time to time.
regards
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Dear All,
acquired in Beaumaris, Anglesey at an antique shop for a song. :)
Initially thought Barovier because of the colour and style. Delighted to have discovered more as a result of all your comments. Thank you.
With kind regards
Andrew
p.s. latest find below.
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Dear Ardy, Ivo, Walt et al,
please accept my apologies for such a tardy response to you both on your comments to the vase.
I bought it at an antiques fair in Beaumaris on Anglesey whilst on a trip to Wales, thought I'd get a little glass hunting in! It was quite inexpensive.
At first I thought Barovier with the colour and style however when I saw the Frastagliato I knew I had to do more research hence arriving at initial thoughts it could be Seguso Merletto.
So once again many thanks to you both for your considered comments.
With kind regards
Andrew